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A new documentary series, Breath of Fire, focuses on the rise and sudden fall of a Kundalini yoga teacher known as Guru Jagat, whose story was brought to wider attention in journalist Haley Phelan’s 2021Vanity Fair story “The Second Coming of Guru Jagat.” The four-episode series, premiering Oct. 23 on HBO, expands on the Vanity Fair piece by bringing together, on camera, friends, family, and former employees of Jagat and Kundalini yogis, who practice across a range of levels, to talk about who Guru Jagat really was as a person and the irony of her yoga business, which aimed to help people succeed in business, struggling to make ends meet. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Breath of Fire comes three years after Jagat, who was born Katie Griggs, died suddenly of cardiac arrest at the age of 41.

American presidential elections are as much a domestic affair as they are a global spectacle—one that foreign leaders are often reluctant to wade in on, lest they risk being seen as impartial. Unfortunately for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, that is a perception he can no longer avoid after former President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the U.

In the last weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump is amping up his anti-immigrant rhetoric, saying in a recent radio interview that migrants had “bad genes” and doubling down on his belief that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of the nation.” Such tropes about immigrants can incite violence and can lead to far-reaching consequences that go well beyond immigration restrictions.

CANBERRA, Australia — An Indigenous senator has intensified her criticism of King Charles III, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the “genocide” against Australia’s First Nations peoples and declaring on Wednesday she will not be “shut down.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Sen. Lidia Thorpe’s comments followed an encounter with the monarch at a parliamentary reception Monday where she was escorted out after shouting at him for British colonizers taking Indigenous land and bones. Despite facing political and public backlash, Thorpe was resolute in a television interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and said she would continue to press for justice. “The colonial system is all about shutting black women down in this country,” Thorpe said from Melbourne.

Being a fan of Bridget Everett used to feel like being in on a deliciously dirty secret. Since the mid-aughts, the comedian, actor, and singer has been the pride of New York’s downtown alt-cabaret scene, belting out freaky anthems and shaking her braless bust in fans’ faces at intimate venues like Joe’s Pub.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Israel needs to pursue an “enduring strategic success” after its tactical victories against Hamas, urging it to seek a deal that would end the war in the Gaza Strip and bring back dozens of hostages. He spoke before traveling from Israel to Saudi Arabia on his 11th visit to the region since the outbreak of the war.